This is Visual Journalism [45]

Welcome to the first part of our picks of impressive print infographics featured here on Visual Loop, during 2013. As we explained here and here,these compilations are not an award, or anything like that. Instead, just a personal selection, picked among the hundreds we brought to you on a regular basis.

We started this weekly round-up of visual journalism back in February 2013, and it is by far the most challenging one of all of our compilations. Why? Well, simply because, despite all the ‘crisis’ in the print media industry, infographics in newspapers and magazines are far more popular than interactive ones. And the number of professionals doing them is huge, compared to the ones working for the Internet, as we see, for example, in our Portfolio of the Week section.

Also, it’s important to notice that only a very small fraction of the infographics published in major news outlets gets to our hands, either by submissions from the infographic designers themselves, or by getting published in the Internet by the newspapers and magazines, usually on their online galleries.

With all that said, there’s no question that the works we’re bringing here are definitively worthy of our attention and appreciation, and we sincerely hope you feel the same.